What can you infer about Hamlet from his first soliloquy?
... one sense this uses the physical side of an unweeded garden as a metaphor for the way in which Denmark is now ruled. Just like an unweeded garden isn’t cared for, Hamlet believes it is the same as how his uncle doesn’t care about Denmark. The other way in which we can read this is the comparison between his father and uncle. Hamlet’s mentioning of all problems has one root, that of his uncle. ‘My father’s brother but no more like my father’ is again an obvious comparison between his father and uncle. From this comparison it is clearly seen that Hamlet views his uncle as similar by blood, but not by the men they are. We can also see the great admiration Hamlet has for his father. As we become aware of Hamlet’s disgust toward his uncle we are exposed to Hamlet’s feelings toward his mother’s remarriage. ‘She married. O, most wicked speed,’ This makes it known that Hamlet disapproves of the short space of time it has taken his mother to move on to another relationship without, a period of actual morning. ‘Ere yet the salt of unrighteous tears’ also shows us Hamlet questioning the credibility of his mother’s feelings after his father’s death. He implies that the tears his mother has shed were fake and shortly afterwards dried up, doubting the feelings his mother shows. The generalisation, ‘frailty, thy name is woman’ directly refers to his mother being, in Hamlet’s eyes, weak and requiring a man to support her. The way in which Shakespeare wrote Hamlet to say this about women as a whole rather than Gertrude shows us the generalis...